Memorial for S. C. Washington, (painting).

Memorial for S. C. Washington, (painting).

Unknown, painter.

Memorial for S. C. Washington, (painting).

Watercolor on ivory, with pearls, gold wire, chopped hair, and applied ivory.

1 1/16 x 11/16 in. (2.7 x 1/7 cm)

Primitive -- Mourning

Homage -- Washington, S. C.

Figure female -- Full length

Architecture -- Monument -- Gravestone

Promised gift Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 Accession Number: 1999.3.18

Promised bequest of Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch and Alvin Deutsch in honor of Kathleen Luhrs.

Engraved on reverse: "S. C. Washington. Ob9th. Nov. 1789. / Aet: 19."

Frank, Robin Jaffee, "Love and loss: American portrait and mourning miniatures," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, no. 76.

Frank, Robin Jaffee, "Love and loss: American portrait and mourning miniatures," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, pg. 131.

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